The meeting families of two Scottsdale schools have been dreading is happening soon.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, the Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board meets at Coronado High School

The five-person governing board will decide the fate of Pima and Echo Canyon elementary schools.

Though an agenda was not available as of this newspaper’s deadline, SUSD Superintendent Scott Menzel confirmed closing or “repurposing” the two schools will be addressed Dec 9.

SUSD has been hit with declining enrollment over the last decade – as have other Valley districts, including Kyrene, which is pondering the closure of six of its 19 elementary and two of its six middle schools across Tempe, Ahwatukee and Chandler.

Rick Brammer of consultant Applied Economics recently told the SUSD board th

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